The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....

[Mark Kohut]

To Aunt Calvinism, pure Puritan, all art is, yes, a forgery, and is a sin 
against God....(like when the Puritans shut down the theaters; like 

Fundamentalists total philistinism).

So, I ask too logically too early surely---is Gaddis suggesting God (outside, 
above, beyond all the humans who espouse him) is the original
Source too...........lining up with Aunt Calvin JUST ON THIS with that 
narrator's remark? 


And another thing re the narrator. Sartre once said in criticizing [Nobel 
winner] Mauriac's latest, that novels could no longer be written omnisciently
since God died. Since that IMPLIED a god-like narrator......(Well, maybe not 
BUT......you get the connection here or is it just me?) 




----- Original Message ----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 4:43:28 PM
Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....

By the Aunt's definition, all human expressions of creativity are godless 
forgeries.  So Wyatt's being told from a young age that everything's a forgery, 
ergo forging art is no worse than creating art.

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Apr 6, 2011 4:04 PM
>To: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....
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>I'm liking this....YES, I was struck by that word original too...
>and that word 'originality' he uses ain't an accident
>as a real critic would say.............since it is in the fabric
>of the book's exporational meanings............
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>
>To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 3:43:10 PM
>Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read: Up Yours, too....
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>Perhaps the arguments are ad hominem because they are based on a
>supposition about humans, that things of grand scope and fortuitous
>(there's chance again) originality cannot be of human origin. The
>words 'fortuitous originality' stand out in this book about plagiarism
>and counterfeiting. And, fortuitous originality is attributed to God.
>(Who in the next sentence strikes Camilla's appendix.)
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